WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We're looking for an Application & Development Security Lead to help shape and strengthen secure software development governance across one of the world's largest technology and creative ecosystems. Working within WPP's Digital Security & Risk Management team, you'll partner with engineering, product and platform teams to govern secure-by-design ways of working, improve software security governance, and provide oversight across modern development environments. This role isn't about writing code day-to-day. Instead, you'll influence governance of how secure software is built, deployed and maintained across cloud-native platforms, APIs, AI-enabled applications and global engineering teams. This is an opportunity to influence software security governance at global scale, helping shape how security supports innovation across one of the world's largest and most diverse technology environments. You'll work alongside talented security and engineering professionals while helping build secure, resilient products and platforms for the future. What you'll be doing: Define an
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Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Location: Europe remote or London hybrid About the role: As our engineering and research organisation grows, so does the complexity of securing it. Our Application Security team is at the forefront of that challenge — building AI-native security tooling, embedding security into the development lifecycle at scale, and finding ways to make a small, highly capable team punch well above its weight. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the AppSec team. This is not a coordination role. You'll be leading a team of exceptionally senior and staff-level engineers who are deeply self-directed and technically excellent. To earn their trust and enable their best work, you'll need to be genuinely close to the craft — able to engage at depth on threat modelling, agentic security tooling, SDLC design, and application risk. You'll also own AppSec strategy and be accountable for how the function scales alongside a product organisation that is growing fast and leaning heavily into AI-assisted development. Important note: Anyone working as a manager within the Infosec team will need to follow the Infosec Team Management Tenets . Key Responsibilities: Lead, support, enable and grow the AppSec team — owning hirin
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world. We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure working on our Foundry platform, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world. We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowerin
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Plan: Spec-Driven Development team, you'll help build GitLab's intent-to-code loop: agentic workflows that turn a stated intent into a refined work item, an implementation plan, and verified, mergeable code. You'll own early-stage backend work across the flows, application programming interfaces, data models, and evaluation systems behind this experience, using Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, large language model application programming interfaces, and an artificial intelligence gateway. You'll join a small, distributed team working on one
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Auth0 Sales Team Auth0 supports Okta’s vision of freeing anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of log-ins every year for Consumers and SaaS applications. This team in the UKI is growing exponentially with net new growth headcount being released to support the demand in the market. The Auth0 Enterprise Account Executive Opportunity As an Auth0 Enterprise Account Executive , you'll play a pivotal role in expanding our footprint and driving significant revenue growth in the Public Sector . You'll be instrumental in demonstrating the profound value of our platform to Application Development teams , including Engineering, Product, Security, and Architecture leaders . This isn't just about closing deals; it's about building lasting partnerships, identifying new opportunities, and nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure their continued success and expansion with Auth0. What You'll Do: Drive New Business Growth: Proactively generate and nurture top-of-funnel activity to create a robust pipeline of new customer opportunities. Master the Sales Cycle: Execute every sales engagement with precision, leveraging a methodical and controlled sales approach to navigate complex deals. Strategic Territory Management: Develop and execute comprehensive territory plans, demonstrating strong operational excellence and delivering accurate forecasts. Engage Technical Audience
From £164K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Auth0 Sales Team Auth0 supports Okta’s vision of freeing anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of log-ins every year for Consumers and SaaS applications. This team in the UKI is growing exponentially with net new growth headcount being released to support the demand in the market. The Auth0 Enterprise Account Executive Opportunity As an Auth0 Enterprise Account Executive , you'll play a pivotal role in expanding our footprint and driving significant revenue growth. You'll be instrumental in demonstrating the profound value of our platform to Application Development teams , including Engineering, Product, Security, and Architecture leaders . This isn't just about closing deals; it's about building lasting partnerships, identifying new opportunities, and nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure their continued success and expansion with Auth0. What You'll Do: Drive New Business Growth: Proactively generate and nurture top-of-funnel activity to create a robust pipeline of new customer opportunities. Master the Sales Cycle: Execute every sales engagement with precision, leveraging a methodical and controlled sales approach to navigate complex deals. Strategic Territory Management: Develop and execute comprehensive territory plans, demonstrating strong operational excellence and delivering accurate forecasts. Engage Technical Audiences: Employ a sophistica
About the Team The Applications Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably. In this role, you will: Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years building core infrastructure Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) understand our customers’ greatest pain points and design end-to-end solutions to address them. FDSEs solicit constant feedback on their work from both customers and colleagues, improving our products over time with rapid iteration cycles. FDSEs deploy ground breaking technical solutions to solve our customers’ hardest problems. Projects often start with a nebulous question like “Why are we losing customers?” or “How can we more effectively identify instances of money laundering?” FDSEs lead the way in developing a solution, from high-level system design and prototyping to application development and data integration. As an FDSE, you leverage everything around you: Palantir products, open source technologies, and anything you and your team can build to drive real impact. You work with customers around the globe, where you gain rare insight into the world’s most important industries and institutions. We help our customers detect insider trading, improve disaster relief, fight healthcare fraud, and more. Each mission presents different challenges, from the regulatory environment to the nature of the data to the user population. You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes for our customers. Core Responsibilities FDSEs responsibilities look similar to those of a startup CTO: you’ll work in small teams and own end-to-end execution of high stakes projects. A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, speaking with customer executives, or establishing strategy for your team. Do you aspire to
Location : Come and join us in London! Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. One of our core goals for 2026 is the complete digitalization of the European taxi market. We work with taxi companies to provide them with our advanced dispatch and fleet management software completely free of charge. This enables them to significantly reduce operating costs, successfully differentiate themselves from major ride-hailing providers, and manage a profitable, sustainable business. To support this, we are looking for a Sales Manager who will become the face of this initiative. We look forward to your application and can't wait to have you on board for this journey! YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: Prospect, engage, travel and pitch our Dispatch tool to SME taxi companies in the UK. You are the driving force behind converting traditional vehicle fleets into modern, connected Freenow by Lyft partners. Guide entrepreneurs, fleet owners, and senior dispatchers through the fear of operational change. Act as the voice of our partners. You will gather on-the-ground feedback about our software and collaborate directly with our Product and Strategy teams to help "co-build" the ultimate solution. TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE: 3-5 years of professional experience in areas such as B2B business development, sales, or account management. Experience in mobility, logistics, or selling SaaS solutions to SMEs is especially valued. Proven track record of managing a B2B pipeline and handling objections. You understand that even when a product is free, you still have to expertly "sell" the time, effort, and operational shift required to adopt it. Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust and long-term relationships. The ability to deeply understand a partner's business operations at a process level. You are skilled at guiding new partners step by step through the change process and ensuring they smoothly a
Location : Come and join us in London! Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. One of our core goals for 2026 is the complete digitalization of the European taxi market. We work with taxi companies to provide them with our advanced dispatch and fleet management software completely free of charge. This enables them to significantly reduce operating costs, successfully differentiate themselves from major ride-hailing providers, and manage a profitable, sustainable business. To support this, we are looking for a Sales Manager who will become the face of this initiative. We look forward to your application and can't wait to have you on board for this journey! YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: Prospect, engage, travel and pitch our Dispatch tool to SME taxi companies in the UK. You are the driving force behind converting traditional vehicle fleets into modern, connected Freenow by Lyft partners. Guide entrepreneurs, fleet owners, and senior dispatchers through the fear of operational change. Act as the voice of our partners. You will gather on-the-ground feedback about our software and collaborate directly with our Product and Strategy teams to help "co-build" the ultimate solution. TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE: 3-5 years of professional experience in areas such as B2B business development, sales, or account management. Experience in mobility, logistics, or selling SaaS solutions to SMEs is especially valued. Proven track record of managing a B2B pipeline and handling objections. You understand that even when a product is free, you still have to expertly "sell" the time, effort, and operational shift required to adopt it. Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust and long-term relationships. The ability to deeply understand a partner's business operations at a process level. You are skilled at guiding new partners step by step through the change process and ensuring they smoothly a
£107K – £262K/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and reactive programming. Has a strong product sense and high craft bar. Builds intuitive and delightful user experiences. Experienced in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence. Strong sense of ownership and agency. Able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas. Able to optimize for performance, stability and reliability. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition. Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.). Rust for working with our backend components. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: £107,000 - £262,0
Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role You will focus on friction points around primarily backend issues for all teams in Engineering (90 Engineers). How should we do inter-service testing? Some teams are using monorepo, others aren’t. How can we bring overall stability up? Generally steering BE in the right direction. In the near future, standardising things across all of Engineering and bringing R&D teams (another 40 Engineers and Researchers) closer. You will have ownership of projects that span quarters, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary. You will consider the long-term direction of Engineering, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 12-18 months' time. You will work end-to-end, from our client application written in React to our monolithic backend written in Python, and lead projects that span across multiple teams. What we're looking
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Join us and be a member of the team that tests the development tools used to create every PlayStation® game. This is a great opportunity to continue a career in Software Testing, working on industry leading development tools and being mentored by experts in their field. What you’ll be doing Developing tests for new applications, new features and regressions. Developing test strategies with application teams. Automating tests as part of our continuous integration systems. Investigating issues and creating reproducible test cases. Conducting manual, exploratory testing. Reporting test results clearly (including performance and coverage). Developing tooling to help reduce test time and ease test execution. Make suggestions and recommendations for improvements to help shape the finished product. Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams in a multicultural environment to develop organisation-wide test strategies and infrastructure. Mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and influencing quality engineering approaches. What we are looking for 5+ years experience in developing tests for software applications. Experience of automating tests. A good understanding of software testing techniques. Good C# programming skills. Understanding of C++. Experience in triaging
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with other engineers to architect a new system that enables a novel workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency operational outcomes. Our Product Development organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product and work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows and continuously improve our software's efficiency and reliability. We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally. If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a
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